Jeff Dunn wrote:
>I am writing now not about the bright lights of success, the shining
>glories of a life, but the bitter end. I am speaking of the moments of
>sad summation, when one looks back--or imagines oneself looking back--at
>a life of promise incomplete.
Three works which are guaranteed to cure all optimism everywhere:
* Ninth Symphony by Malcolm Arnold - Lento (fourth movement). The last
- & most despairing - of Arnold's Waste Land pastorales.
* First Symphony by ZHU Jian'er -!? (third movement). A disjointed
nightmare in sound, from ZHU's Cultural Revolution symphony.
* Canto General by Mikis Theodorakis - America Insurrecta (finale).
A lament for an American Revolution that never took place.
Razor blades available on request....
Live in peace
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